密斯.范.德.罗厄(1886～1969年)
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig，原名Maria Ludwig Michael Mies。
德裔美国建筑师，国际风格无需争辩的领袖人物。曾随父亲学石工技艺，後在建筑师贝伦斯的工作室工作。其第一件成名作品是受托在1929年国际博览会设计的巴塞隆纳展览馆，这是一个石灰华岩平台，由镀铬的钢柱支承，配以米黄色的缟玛瑙、绿色的蒂尼安大理石和磨砂玻璃的间墙。其钢铁－皮革制的巴塞隆纳坐椅成为20世纪家具设计的典范。1930～1933年在包浩斯执教，先是居住在德绍，後来随校迁往柏林。1937年移民美国，他在那里担任芝加哥阿穆尔学院（後来的伊利诺理工学院）建筑系系主任。他设计了该校的新校区（1939～1941）。其他的设计包括芝加哥湖滨大道公寓（1949～1951），西格拉姆大厦和柏林新国家美术馆（1963～1968）。他将钢骨架插入玻璃门墙而设计出的建筑展示了他「少就是多」的理念。受其影响而修建的钢与玻璃相结合的建筑如今已遍布全球。
English version：
1886～1969年
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
German-U.S. architect, the undisputed leader of the International Style. Mies learned masonry from his father and later worked in the office of Peter Behrens. His first great work was the Barcelona Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition, a travertine platform with chromed steel columns and spaces defined by planes of extravagant onyx, marble, and frosted glass. His steel-and-leather Barcelona chair became a 20th-century classic. He directed the Bauhaus 1930-33, first in Dessau and then, during its final months, in Berlin. In 1937 Mies moved to the U.S., where he directed the School of Architecture at Chicago's Armour Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology). He designed the school's new campus (1939-41). Other projects include Chicago's Lake Shore Drive Apartments (1949-51), the Seagram Building, and Berlin's New National Gallery (1963-68). Steel skeletons sheathed in glass curtain-wall facades, these buildings exemplify Mies's dictum that “less is more.” Steel-and-glass office buildings influenced by his work were built all over the world.